# How to use **Auto Upload Images**

This is probably not needed. The WordPress built in importer already imports images into `wp-content/uploads`.

- Make sure "ImageMagick" and "gd" is enabled in php.ini and properly installed on system
- Also, maybe it is best to increase `max_execution_time` in php.ini
- As you made changes to php.ini, restart Apache service
- Install the [Auto Upload Images](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-upload-images/) plugin
- Settings - Auto Upload Images
- Save changes
- Posts - All posts - Screen options
- Change `Number of items per page` from 20 to 999, then Apply
- Select all posts, choose "Edit" from the bulk actions dropdown, click Apply
- You'll see a form with all your selected posts under a "BULK EDIT" field. Click Update without changing anything. It will take some time to finish depending on number of posts and your download speed.
- If you have more than 999 posts, click next and apply the same trick there (select all, choose Edit, Apply, Update)
- After you're done, click **Screen options** and change the pagination setting back to 20

[Details](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-import-external-images-in-wordpress/)

It wonderfully imports images into WordPress Media library and updates the `<img>` `src` attribute automatically.
